Genesis 10:9

Good News Translation (US Version)

By the Lord's help he was a great hunter, and that is why people say, “May the Lord make you as great a hunter as Nimrod!”

Cross References

Psalm 52:7

“Look, here is someone who did not depend on God for safety, but trusted instead in great wealth and looked for security in being wicked.”

2 Chronicles 28:22

When his troubles were at their worst, that man Ahaz sinned against the Lord more than ever.

Genesis 27:30

Isaac finished giving his blessing, and as soon as Jacob left, his brother Esau came in from hunting.

Genesis 25:27

The boys grew up, and Esau became a skilled hunter, a man who loved the outdoors, but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.

Genesis 13:13

whose people were wicked and sinned against the Lord.

Genesis 6:11

but everyone else was evil in God's sight, and violence had spread everywhere.

Genesis 6:4

In those days, and even later, there were giants on the earth who were descendants of human women and the heavenly beings. They were the great heroes and famous men of long ago.

Micah 7:2

There is not an honest person left in the land, no one loyal to God. Everyone is waiting for a chance to commit murder. Everyone hunts down their own people.

Ezekiel 13:18

and tell them what the Sovereign Lord is saying to them: “You women are doomed! You sew magic wristbands for everyone and make magic scarves for everyone to wear on their heads, so that they can have power over other people's lives. You want to possess the power of life and death over my people and to use it for your own benefit.

Jeremiah 16:16

The Lord says, “I am sending for many fishermen to come and catch these people. Then I will send for many hunters to hunt them down on every mountain and hill and in the caves among the rocks.

Genesis 10:8

Cush had a son named Nimrod, who became the world's first great conqueror.

Genesis 10:10

At first his kingdom included Babylon, Erech, and Accad, all three of them in Babylonia.

Isaiah 18:2

From that land ambassadors come down the Nile in boats made of reeds. Go back home, swift messengers! Take a message back to your land divided by rivers, to your strong and powerful nation, to your tall and smooth-skinned people, who are feared all over the world.